SpaceX to launch 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral – Spaceflight Now
File: A Falcon 9 stands ready to launch the Starlink 12-5 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Image: Spaceflight Now. SpaceX is kicking off of the month of May with the first of likely several Falcon 9 mission launching more of its Starlink V2 Mini satellites. Onboard […]
ESA – Biomass launch highlights
ESA’s state-of-the-art Biomass satellite launched aboard a Vega-C rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The rocket lifted off on 29 April 2025 at 11:15 CEST (06:15 local time). In orbit, this latest Earth Explorer mission will provide vital insights into the health and dynamics of the world’s forests, revealing how they are changing […]
Doubts mount further over signs of alien life on K2-18b: ‘This is evidence of the scientific process at work’
Recently, a team of University of Cambridge-led astronomers made global headlines after announcing they’d found the “strongest evidence yet” of life beyond our solar system. Their claims were based on the detection of sulfur-based gases in an alien planet’s atmosphere — gases typically linked to biological processes on Earth. However, a quick independent analysis of […]
Stargazing Calendar for April 2025
Sombrero Galaxy (M104 or NGC 4594). A mosaic of six images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys in May and June 2003. Credit: NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA). April 2025 will be an exciting time for astronomy enthusiasts, with a variety of stargazing events lighting up the night sky. […]
Fascist Infestation – Ice on the Moon
“The implication of the government’s position is that not only noncitizens, but also United States citizens can be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress.” And I would add after that it is just one more step to that final fascist solution. The Nazi presence […]
A JPL Facility Is Playing an Important Role in Prepping for the Artemis Moon Landings…
NASA / JPL – Caltech NASA Tests Key Spacesuit Parts Inside This Icy Chamber (News Release – April 24) A JPL facility built to support potential robotic spacecraft missions to frozen ocean worlds helps engineers develop safety tests for next-generation spacesuits. When NASA astronauts return to the Moon under the Artemis campaign and eventually venture […]
NASA balloon embarks on multi-month stratospheric flight from New Zealand
NASA balloon embarks on multi-month stratospheric flight from New Zealand by Clarence Oxford Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 22, 2025 NASA’s super pressure balloon has successfully achieved float altitude following its launch from Wanaka Airport in New Zealand at 10:44 a.m. NZST on April 17 (6:44 p.m. EDT, April 16). Designed to navigate […]
ESA launches novel Biomass-tracking radar satellite
At 5:15 a.m. EDT an Arianespace Vega C rocket launched a European Space Agency (ESA) satellite mission aimed at measuring the biomass of Earth’s forests. Appropriately called “Biomass,” the mission will be using a unique type of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) to perform the survey, one that has never previously been deployed on a satellite. […]